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Historian Glossary
The field of study in this blog will be about History. Since the course that im taking is Social Sciences at Ahuntsic College is about Political and historical views, I decided to post a lexic on this subject.
- term 1: Archaic
- definition 1: Of a linguistic form commonly used in an earlier time but rare in present day usage except to suggest the older time, as in religious rituals or historical novels.
- term 2: Herodotus
- definition 2: Greek historian.
- term 3: Roman
- definition 3: Relating to the ancient or modern city of Rome, or to its inhabitants and their customs and culture.
- term 4: interpretation
- definition 4: The act of interpreting. elucidation; explication.
- term 5: analytical
- definition 5: Pertaining to or proceeding by analysis (opposed to synthetic ).
- term 6: culture
- definition 6: Quality in a person or society that arises from a concern for what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners, scholarly pursuits, etc.
- term 7: cognitive
- definition 7: Relating to cognition; concerned with the act or process ofknowing, perceiving, etc.
- term 8: discourse
- definition 8: Communication of thought by words; talk; conversation.
- term 9: protocols
- definition 9: The customs and regulations dealing with diplomatic formality,precedence, and etiquette.
- term 10: apprenticeship
- definition 10: A person who works for another in order to learn a trade.
- term 11: Colony
definition 11:
Group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation.
- term 12: Reform
definition 12:
The improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.
- term 13: Charter
definition 13:
A document, issued by a sovereign or state, outlining the conditions under which a corporation, colony, city, or other corporate body is organized, and defining its rights and privileges.- term 14: Issue
definition 14:
The act of sending out or putting forth; promulgation; distribution.- term 15: Accounts
definition 15:
An oral or written description of particular events or situations; narrative.
- term 16: Anthropology
definition 16:
The science that deals with the origins, physical and cultural development, biological characteristics, and social customs and beliefs of humankind.- term 17: Methodology
definition 17:
A set or system of methods, principles, and rules for regulating a given discipline, as in the arts or sciences.- term 18: Sociology
definition 18:
The science or study of the origin, development, organization, and functioning of human society; the science of the fundamental laws of social relations, institutions, etc.- term 19: Primitive
- definition 19:Being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world.
- term 20: Context
definition 20:
the parts of a written or spoken statement that precede or follow a specific word or passage, usually influencing its meaning or effect.- Source: http://www.dictionary.com/
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